Will people be having sex after the Resurrection?

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Patricia Beattie Jung is a Roman Catholic and Visiting Professor of Christian Ethics, Saint Paul School of Theology. She defends an alternative claim that there will be a healed and glorified experience of sex in heaven based on a compelling account of the Christian hope for bodily resurrection. The first half of the work focuses on Christian foundations for the notion of sex in heaven, while the second goes on to discuss some of the implications of those convictions for sex on earth.

What do you think about her new book on this issue?

books.google.com.mx/books?id=I-vMDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA100&dq=Sex+on+Earth+as+It+Is+in+Heaven&hl=es-419&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Sex%20on%20Earth%20as%20It%20Is%20in%20Heaven&f=false
 
Is writing or reading such a book really a wise use of time? Are today’s troubles really so insufficient that we need to be preoccupied with sex after the resurrection? Who really cares?
 
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Patricia Beattie Jung is a Roman Catholic and Visiting Professor of Christian Ethics, Saint Paul School of Theology. She defends an alternative claim that there will be a healed and glorified experience of sex in heaven based on a compelling account of the Christian hope for bodily resurrection. The first half of the work focuses on Christian foundations for the notion of sex in heaven, while the second goes on to discuss some of the implications of those convictions for sex on earth.

What do you think about her new book on this issue?

books.google.com.mx/books?id=I-vMDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA100&dq=Sex+on+Earth+as+It+Is+in+Heaven&hl=es-419&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Sex%20on%20Earth%20as%20It%20Is%20in%20Heaven&f=false
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well, Jesus did say there would be no need for marriage in heaven, so I don’t know who everyone is supposed to be having sex with exactly. plus there will be no need for procreation.

we will be brothers and sisters in heaven
 
At least people are thinking about life everlasting. That’s worth something,

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Of all the things I need to concern myself with, this question would probably be at the bottom of my list!
 
What does the Catechism mean when it says the marital act is “spiritual”?
 
Sure. After we have played our harps, eaten Philly Cream Cheese, dusted the planets, polished the stars, sung (Whoopi Goldberg directing the celestial choir of course), and eaten our daily 90 course banquet and drunk a few dozen glasses of wine, what else would we do? :rolleyes:
 
This is like a baby writing a book on how he will get all the best teething biscuits, Gerber baby food, and blankies when he grows up and gets a job.

A baby can’t understand why he never sees old people teething, and why adults don’t seem to have blankies to take to work for naptime. A baby would be sure that adults have bigger and better cribs, playpens, and numnums hidden somewhere. He wouldn’t be impressed by steak, champagne, mansions, the Mona Lisa, or a Corvette. He wouldn’t even know what most of the good things of adult life are, much less long for them. He could only picture what he knows and understands, and trust that adult life will somehow be different and better.

Marriage, sex, and procreation are important at this stage of life, just like teething and favorite blankets are important to a baby. But we do not need those things in later stages, or they will be changed for different pursuits – even though they loom so large (deservedly) right now. That is why Jesus tells us that “in the resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married; but shall be as the angels of God in heaven.” (Matthew 22:30)

As John reminds us in his letter, “we are children of God now. What we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like Him.” (1 John 3:2-3)
 
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Sure. After we have played our harps, eaten Philly Cream Cheese, dusted the planets, polished the stars, sung (Whoopi Goldberg directing the celestial choir of course), and eaten our daily 90 course banquet and drunk a few dozen glasses of wine, what else would we do? :rolleyes:
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I love it! No sarcasm there:thumbsup:👍
 
Mother Angelica touches this subject on one of her programs. We will be like angels and we will not marry therefore, I dont know how the visiting professor managed to explain this. But many “catholics” can have some ideas that well, are wrong.

The program in which Mother Angelica talks about this, if some are interested is: Mother Angelica Live Classic - 2013-01-8 - Heaven and Angels, around minute 45:35.
 
The book isn’t loading for me so maybe I’m missing something, but what’s with all the spiteful comments? Our bodies are designed for reproduction and we will receive glorified bodies after the resurrection. Is it not a legitimate question?
 
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